Rep. Zeldin Statement on USA Today Report of VA Manipulation of Wait Times and the President's Continued Deafening Silence on this Scandal

Statement

Congressman Lee Zeldin, member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and Army veteran, today released the following statement after a USA Today report reviewed VA investigations that found that at least 40 Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) supervisors in at least 19 different states instructed their employees to falsify patient wait times in VA facilities:

"Gross incompetence is an understatement and the Obama administration's silence is deafening. The brave men and women who answered the call of duty deserve to come home and receive the care they desperately need from a grateful nation. This is a slap in the face to all veterans and those responsible must be held responsible. While I believe that 99% of VA employees genuinely care about the work they do and want to help veterans, we must always hold accountable the other 1% of those who are not acting in the best interest of veterans. I sense no pain, no sense of justice, and no outrage from the President for a reprehensible crisis that has literally cost veterans their lives as a result. The American public is demanding this silence be broken, justice served, and the system fixed."

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